Moral Re-Armament

978-613-5-90987-6

ISBN-10:

6135909878

EAN:

9786135909876

Idioma del libro:

Inglés

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Moral Re-Armament (MRA) was an international moral and spiritual movement that, in 1938, grew out of the Reverend Frank N. D. Buchman's Oxford Group. Buchman headed the movement for 23 years, from 1938 until his death in 1961. The movement, in its early years, was made up of Buchman's personal followers, and so the name change was incremental rather than abrupt and formal. Buchman may have coined the phrase "moral rearmament" as early as 1925 on trips to Australia, while MRA was still known as the Oxford group. Others maintain that the first use of the term in the literary world was in 1938, when the British tennis star H. W. Austin edited the book Moral Rearmament (The Battle for Peace), which sold half a million copies. Buchman and his fellow Oxford Group leaders liked the new phrase, and the former Oxford Group developed soon thereafter into Moral Re-Armament. Buchman notably used similar language on May 29, 1938, when he stated, in reference to the surge of military re-armament in Europe, "The crisis is fundamentally a moral one. The nations must re-arm morally. Moral recovery is essentially the forerunner of economic recovery."